6,275 Israelis were diagnosed positive for Corona - 3rd of them from the education system

6,275 Israelis were diagnosed as positive for Corona - more than a third of them from the education system - and this is the highest number of verified since February 8. The peak since the beginning of the plague was 10,117, on January 18th. Today, at midnight, 2,942 verified were diagnosed.
Excluding surveys and tests for recoverers, the positive rate yesterday was 4.84% - the highest figure since March 6. The peak of the outbreak is 15%, on September 29 last year. Today, at midnight, the rate of positives is slightly higher - 4.89%.
A total of 130,000 tests were performed yesterday, the highest number since the outbreak. The record until yesterday was about 123,000 tests, on January 11.
388 corona patients in critical condition are hospitalized in the hospitals. The number of difficult patients this morning - 394 - the highest since March 30. The peak - 1,181 seriously ill - was set on January 21st.
On Sunday, 84 new seriously ill patients were added per day. Yesterday 70 were added, and the number is expected to rise. 84 patients are severe on this day the highest number since March 8. The peak - 187 in one day - was on January 19th.
On Sunday, 17 corona patients also died, the highest number in one day since March 14. The highest number of deaths in one day was 76, on January 26th. In fact, since the beginning of the week, 29 patients have died, and the outbreak of the plague - 6,571.
Data collected by an Oxford University research body show that the fourth wave of coronary heart disease has placed Israel in eighth place in the world in new infections per million inhabitants.
In first place in the last seven days in terms of new verifications per million inhabitants is Fiji followed by Botswana, Georgia, Cuba, Aswatini (former Swaziland), Cyprus and Malaysia. Israel is in eighth place and not far behind it are Iran, Kazakhstan, Britain, Spain and the United States.
In terms of deaths per million Corona, Israel is in a low place. The table in the last seven days is led by Botswana, Tunisia, Fiji and Georgia. Israel is in 61st place, just below the global average of Corona mortality per million inhabitants in the past week. Britain, too, where the vaccination rate is as high as in Israel, is ranked close to the world average this week.
In recent days, the Korona has also been coming to the Knesset. Today, MK Gilad Karib of the Labor Party informed the Knesset officer, Superintendent Yosef Griff, that in a test he did, he was positive about the corona virus. Yesterday, MK Ofer Kasif from the joint list was also diagnosed as positive for Corona.
Following the rise in morbidity, Culture and Sports Minister Hili Trooper instructed his office staff that frontal meetings in his presence would be conditional on the presentation of a green sign. According to his decision, entry into the Minister's office will not be allowed without a vaccine certificate, a recovery certificate or a negative corona examination. Those who have not been vaccinated will meet with the minister only through the zoom.
In a message sent to the ministry's employees from the minister's office, it was stated: starting this week and according to the minister's instructions, every employee who attends a frontal meeting at the minister's office will be required to present a green sign. "It will not be possible to enter the minister's office without a vaccinator / recovering certificate or a negative corona examination."